KDE Plasma 6 Megarelease - A new major release after 10 years - Best Linux Desktop!?

A quick walkthrough of the most prominent new features of KDE Plasma 6.
Plasma is one of the most popular desktop to use on Linux. It features many customization options and settings to configure your system the way you like.

What do you think about the new release?
Which desktop you use on your Linux system?
Or do you use Plasma even on BSD?

See the release announcement:

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[violet_droid_xz]

KDE really did an EXCELLENT work, love to all devs who made and making KDE much better and better

[y]

It's a great release! But, totally understandable, there are lots of little papercuts and annoyances. So [after reporting a few bugs], I've switched to old faithful Mint for the next few months while they sort out the issues :)

[data.monoid]

KDE finally got the Gnome overview, yay! Kudos to the KDE team for working on this wonderful release! :)

[JureRepinc]

Simply the best desktop period, even when counting closed proprietary alternatives. Can't wait for Plasma 6 to come to openSUSE Tumbleweed.

[davidwayne]

Took so long because it was ALREADY great... and hard to make great BETTER---and do the usual quality work they always do!!! Can't wait to try it.

[gzoechi]

Just installed it with NixOS. Flawless so far.

[michadybczak]

Scroll jump to the place of click was also in Plasma 5, but it wasn't the default. It's astonishing that so many people think this is a new feature.

[MegaManNeo]

Glad to see Plasma 6 will be more of an evolution of Plasma 5 than KDE4 was to 3.5 way back in the day.
Improvements all seem great and there's no forced Wayland session which makes me very happy as some of the tools I need daily still refuse to function properly with Wayland.
The System Settings window looks like a mess tho.

[CGA]

"...for the sake of presentation I'm switching back to the light theme". This alone made me upvote, the dark theme obsession on YT is really hurting my old eyes.

[temari]

I really liked the overview they had in the final 5 version, this one is a bit too gnome-like to my taste and just looks incoherent with the rest of the desktop. Tho I don't doubt the style of it is or will be fully configurable.

[kansascityonline]

sweet!... nice review.. Plasma is the best on the net.. by far!...

[NormanF]

Linux distros will probably wait until the fall to bring it out because KDE 6 isn’t quite ready yet. That will coincide with the debut of Windows 24H2. Until then, expect everyone to reman on KDE 5.27.9 LTS.

[NotSeggsySage]

They could have atleast updated breeze gtk theme to support gtk4, thats my only major complain.

[davidwayne]

It looks GOOD- but that sliding around is what bothers me.. I guess I could still AD tiling and make ONE screen work-- right? Either that or I"m going to have to get use to XFCE or something.. If I had 2 good eyes it looks GOOD.. But.. may not work for me anymore.

[deathdoor]

Hey, can you tell me how you use touch gestures.
Yes, I know it's there.
Yes, I know there isn't an interface to configure it yet.
But, why can everyone but me use these gestures? Why?!

[temari]

One thing I don't like about Breeze is that it never looked consistent. Even with this update: some elements are going into more flat, square, straight-edge direction, some elements stay a little bit rounded (like a classic plasma 5px border or so), and some new design elements going completely rounded gnome/mac style with very rounded corners. If just look at the default panel: the panel itself is a very rounded dock, it's applications use a sharp square border to identify opened apps, and dialogs have a slightly rounded border. Breeze always feels like it's in 3+ different design styles and in constant transition to some refreshment.

[avalagum]

How much memory does it use? The bottom panel seems too big, hope its easy to configure it.

[NameUserOf]

Floating panel dodging is here in Plasma 5 as well, it's just disabled by default.

[MrHyde]

Type to search works on workspace overview?

[XeVierTech]

Any news in the last beta update for Magic OS? Maybe video about it?